Governing Climate Induced Migration and Displacement [electronic resource] : IGO Expansion and Global Policy Implications /
Simonelli, Andrea C.author.
Andrea Simonelli provides the first in-depth evaluation of climate displacement in the field of political science, specifically global governance. She evaluates four intergovernmental organizations (UNHCR, IOM, OCHA and the UNFCCC), and the structural and political constraints regarding their potential expansion to govern this new issue area.
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Cover; Governing Climate Induced Migration and Displacement; Contents; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; Current state of affairs; Hyperbole versus fact; Academically understood context; Institutional expansion; Lack of expansion; Filling the governance gap; Conclusion; 2 Current State of Affairs; Migration as adaptation; Making the move; Resisting a move; Additional areas vulnerable to displacement; 3 Hyperbole versus Fact; A problematic discourse; Canary in the coal mine; The lost city of Atlantis; Sinking islands; Implications; 4 Academically Understood Context
Migration as a field of studyVoluntary migration; Forced migration as a field of study; Refugee studies; Environmental migration; Survival migration; Climate change complications; The "climate refugee"?; Convention analysis: strict definitional; Conventional analysis: chain reaction; 5 Institutional Expansion; Governance at the global level; International governance structures; A type of cooperation; Why do states agree to join IGOs?; Institutional mandates and enforcement; Institutional change (general); Institutional expansion theories (specific); 6 Lack of Expansion
The refugee regime and its evolutionPermanent institutionalization; Extensions of the refugee regime - national policies and regional agreements; UNHCR expansion to date; Expansion of the 1967 Protocol; Expansion to IDP issues; Climate change and UNHCR; Concluding remarks; The migration regime?; Governance development; IOM expansion to date; Operational expansion; Institutional expansion; Extensions of the migration regime; Climate change and IOM; Non-official publications; IOM authored publications; Concluding remarks; The evolution of a modern humanitarian regime
Humanitarianism and human rightsThe development of UN OCHA; Extensions of the humanitarian regime; OCHA expansion; OCHA and climate change; Concluding remarks; 7 Filling the Governance Gap; The climate regime; Migration and displacement developments in the UNFCCC; Institutional and political analysis; Regimes; Institutionalization; Implications; Bridging the gap; 8 Conclusion; Reevaluation of expansion theories; Political time horizons; Implications; Further research; Notes; 2 Current State of Affairs; 3 Hyperbole versus Fact; 4 Academically Understood Context; 5 Institutional Expansion
6 Lack of Expansion7 Filling the Governance Gap; 8 Conclusion; References; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Andrea Simonelli provides the first in-depth evaluation of climate displacement in the field of political science, specifically global governance. She evaluates four intergovernmental organizations (UNHCR, IOM, OCHA and the UNFCCC), and the structural and political constraints regarding their potential expansion to govern this new issue area.
Political economy.
Environmental policy.
Environmental sociology.
Political science.
Migration.
International organization.
International Political Economy.
Environmental Politics.
Environmental Sociology.
Political Science.
Migration.
International Organization.